Chief Justice John Roberts traded with liberal justices over the fate of a key plank in President Barack Obama's signature health-care legislation, according to an adaptation published on Tuesday of a forthcoming Roberts biography.
Chief Justice John Roberts traded with liberal justices over the fate of a key plank in President Barack Obama's signature health-care legislation while the matter was before the Supreme Court in 2012, according to an adaptation published on Tuesday of a forthcoming Roberts biography.
But according to Joan Biskupic, the author of"The Chief: The Life and Turbulent Times of Chief Justice John Roberts," that's not the only flip-flop that happened at the time. According to Biskupic, two of the court's liberals, Justices Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan, flipped on Medicaid expansion, a separate legal issue concerning Obamacare.
Ultimately, Breyer and Kagan sided with the court's five conservatives in June 2012 to hold that the law's Medicaid expansion requirement was unconstitutional, leaving the decision up to the states. Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor dissented.
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